Why Hello There

Polyamorous bisexual cis femme lady person (she/her/hers and all that jazz). Feminist, naturally. Artist, effortfully. Cancer survivor. Welcome to this thing. Also, in case anyone's interested, my icon is from an illustration by Victorian artist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson.

[droawsy]

wishes

[sprezzaturan]

Alien visitor. a little something for work + CTN-x :)

[sfemonster]

A parade of empty beasts. Art from a zine i made called moon chase ♥︎

[glavilio]

disrupting skyspace james turnell / coyote

[specialagentartemis]

I say this about most things because I'm me but it's true here too: consider. Project Hail Mary but Grace is a woman.

Dr. Grace Ryland who never managed to play the game of academia and wasn't male enough for her stubbornness or eccentricity to be forgiveable. Grace Ryland who ended up a middle school science teacher and she loves it, she does, but she can never shake the feeling of shame that she's letting the cause of Women In STEM down for it.

Eva Stratt intentionally seeking out highly-degreed and underemployed minorities (here, including women) for the project because the current Top Scientists aren't having much luck and the project needs a diversity of overlooked ideas. Ryland thinking that she and Stratt have like, a sisterhood/solidarity/Girl Power thing going on which is why Stratt keeps her around. Ryland learning that she and Stratt do not have a sisterhood/solidarity/Girl Power thing going on when Stratt sits her down in her office and tells her You Are Going To Space Whether You Want To Or Not. (That betrayal hurts but not as much as the arguments Stratt uses against her: "You don't have a husband, or children, or even a dog. You don't have anyone to stay for." After all this, and she's disposable because she's failing to be a woman correctly, which means a picket fence and a nuclear family, being a wife and mother, and because she's not she might as well die? It's not like she's never faced this judgement before but it's not something she ever expected to face here, not from Eva Stratt. STRATT THAT APPLIES TO YOU TOO. WHY IS IT OKAY FOR YOU BUT NOT FOR ME.)

Grace Ryland waking up in a spaceship. And once she remembers who she is and what she's here to do, stumbling over to the supplies and counting the number of tampons they sent her up with. She remembers that the project director is a woman, who probably knows better than the old infamous NASA guys how many tampons to send an astronaut to space with; and thus, by extrapolation, Grace Ryland can get an estimate of how many months they expect her to survive up here.

[souperluminal]

05.24 - Vein

[emmaklee]

Nishimoto Ryota

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

[insectapologist]

obsessed with this exchange in the replies

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

[doona-baes]

#mood today

[led-lite]

The convergence 

[unhelpfultarot]

Three of Cups and The High Priestess

You're at the club, but only to take notes on the atmosphere, for a scene in the book you're writing.

[dandelionpie]

[urgetocreate]

Victo Ngai (Hong Kong/American, b.1988), The Day, 2012

[antiquesfreaks]

me and who

[thunderstruck9]

Erika Giovanna Klien (Austrian, 1900-1957), Baum im Wind [Tree in the Wind], 1945. Watercolour on cardboard, 74.5 x 54 cm.

[buttpoems]

[arte-artem-artibus]

Lygia Clark - Composition, 1953, oil on canvas, 10 3 x 68 cm

[pixibutt-art]

Prothonotary warbler for spring !